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Defending Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks With Weight-Fair Router Throttling
White Papers The defense mechanism is based on a distributed algorithm that performs weight-fair throttling at the upstream routers. The throttling is weight-fair because the traffics destined for the server are controlled increased or decreased) by the leaky...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
MSDN Webcast: Windows Communication Foundation Top to Bottom (Part 09 of 15): Concurrency, Throughput, and Throttling (Level 200)
White Papers The presenter of this webcast explores the features Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides for managing concurrent access and throttling access to services. Deploying services as part of a large-scale enterprise system usually calls for...
[August 28, 2007, 1:00]
UK lab researches worm-throttling
News Matt Williamson, the researcher spearheading the research, has released a paper on "virus throttling". The core logic of virus throttling hinges on the idea that a computer infected by a worm will often try to connect to as many different machines...
[December 11, 2002, 11:04]
BT's P2P throttling 'damages' ADSL's image
News Industry experts believe that the debacle over BT's throttling of peer-to-peer (P2P) use by its ADSL users could have damaged consumer confidence in broadband, at a time when the UK's IT industry needs the incumbent telco to be doing all it can to...
[October 18, 2001, 13:37]
Throttling Back a CPU = Digital Stupidity
Talkback I don't buy new computers. I buy refurbished CPUs because I can't afford new BUT I buy the fastest I can afford. Its stupid to expect the public to be willing to buy essentially stupid computers now to save a few bucks then pay more in the future...
[December 30, 2008, 8:36]
Adaptive Alert Throttling for Intrusion Detection Systems
White Papers Each time an intrusion detection system raises an alert it must make some attempt to communicate the information to an operator. This communication channel can easily become the target of a denial of service attack because, like all communication...
[June 19, 2008, 1:01]
BT wants BBC to pay for iPlayer
News Internet service provider BT has admitted to throttling provision of the BBC iPlayer, and has called for content providers to shoulder some of the costs of content provision. On Thursday a BT spokesman admitted to ZDNet UK that it had been...
[June 11, 2009, 17:07]
BTopenworld throttles P2P applications
News BTopenworld has admitted that it is deliberately throttling popular peer-to-peer (P2P) applications on its broadband service in order to preserve bandwidth, despite denying such allegations in the past.
[October 8, 2001, 10:20]
Which class are you?
Talkback There are good points and bad points to traffic shaping, for instance a standard user will not see much impact from bandwidth throttling while using common applications. As pointed out by 201206 gamers are one of the groups impacted by throttling.
[April 18, 2007, 13:02]
HP rolls out worm-squashing services
News One service, known as virus throttling, will limit the speed at which viruses and worms can spread by reducing the number of connections an infected computer can have to the Internet. Virus throttling slows down the spread of worms and viruses by...
[February 24, 2004, 9:25]
Ajax Design Patterns: Creating Web 2.0 Sites With Programming and Usability Patterns - Browser-Server Dialogue
White Papers The opposite is Submission Throttling, where the browser keeps uploading new information to the server. An alternative to Submission Throttling, Explicit Submission involves uploading only when the user performs some action.
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
Constricted Internet Connections
Blog Compounding the troubles on the network itself, the existence of zombies in parasitic botnets that siphon away even more computing cycles on infected systems contribute to the data flow throttling. For any given connection speed to an ISP there...
[June 29, 2009, 11:32]
HP announces new antivirus concept for servers
News Security is an active research area at HP Labs, and the company has 16 patents relating to the virus-throttling technology. HP will release virus-throttling support -- likely as part of an add-on pack -- for ProLiant servers running Windows 2000...
[December 1, 2004, 13:15]
Wednesday
Blog Bristol scientists in worm-throttling shock! Wednesday 11/12/2002 That's more like it! But put aside those images of welly-clad farmers in white smocks clasping their size 13 agricultural hands around the neck of some slimy denizen of the soil.
[December 13, 2002, 16:39]
De-Randomizing Congestion Losses to Improve TCP Performance Over Wired-Wireless Network
White Papers Currently, a TCP sender considers all losses as congestion signals and reacts to them by throttling its sending rate. With Internet becoming more heterogeneous with more and more wireless error-prone links, a TCP connection may unduly throttle its...
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
BT holding ransom demands.
Talkback So BT are seemlingly holding content companies to ransom - pay up or face sanctions (streaming throttling). Their accountants are up in arms - they used to depreciate the assets of telephone exchanges over 25-40 years.
[June 12, 2009, 11:15]
"De-Randomizing" Congestion Losses to Improve TCP Performance Over Wired-Wireless Networks
White Papers Currently, a TCP sender considers all losses as congestion signals and reacts to them by throttling its sending rate. With Internet becoming more heterogeneous with more and more wireless error-prone links, a TCP connection may unduly throttle its...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
Mislead for speed
Blog Comment 'Upto 8Mbps'/ADSLMax is wonderful, if you don't mind bandwidth throttling and high latency. It seems that the offer of possible faster broadband captures people's attention over the fact that they could be worse off that remaining where they are.
[June 22, 2007, 12:47]
Securing Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming Systems From Selfish and Malicious Behavior
White Papers This paper presents a flexible framework for throttling attackers in peer-to-peer media streaming systems. In such systems, selfish nodes (e.g.free riders) and malicious nodes (e.g. DoS attackers) can overwhelm the system by issuing too many...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Embattled BT is getting slightly more exposure than it might like, as bitter users haul it over the coals for throttling broadband connections to peer-to-peer file sharing services. Monday 8/10/2001 The situation is a mixture of reason and...
[October 15, 2001, 19:00]
